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Rockton Farmers Visit SOSA

20/7/2011

 
Last Sunday at around lunchtime some local farmers had organized a regular trip around the area riding their antique tractors. Headed by Wally Ford they started out at the Shef's Grill for breakfast and rode their handsome chariots visiting local sights such as the Yee Haw farms and the African Lion Safari.

The last stop on the trip was to pay a visit to SOSA, the first such visit in the history of the Rockton Antique Tractor Club. SOSA entertained the locals with donuts and drinks on the sunny and hot afternoon. The tractors steamed off along the verge of runway 21 led by Herrie TenCate riding shotgun with one of the beasts.

Having toured around SOSA, the farmers were offered a ride in one of our gliders. Russell was the only brave soul and he and his pilot Paul Fish thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.

Dave didn't mind at all when one of the toughest tractors balanced carefully on his wing and traveled it's length.

Some YouTube video is linked as follows:
Tractors arrive at SOSA
Tractors starting off
Tractors riding Rwy 02

New Achievements

12/7/2011

 
Congratulations to our three new solos and a 50K pilots in the last couple of weeks.

Our new solo pilots are Sean Wilkinson; Mark Luscher and Tommy Fodor. Congrats guys!

Glenn Barrett started on his 50K to York, but did not stop there and ended up coming back to SOSA for a total of 142K! Here is his flight trace from OLC.

On the same day, Joerg, Luke and Nick Bonniere from GGC flew over 500K. Check their traces on Rockton SOSA OLC page.

Visitor's Impressions and Pictures

12/7/2011

 
One of the visitors to SOSA shared his impressions of his recent gliding experience on his blog.

His day job happens to be a wedding photographer, so of course he took some pictures, be sure to check them out!

The Nationals

11/7/2011

 
Canadian National Soaring Competition was held at SOSA from June 29 to July 8.

The contest blog with the results can be seen here: http://www.sac.ca/nationals/

Do not miss Maria's amazing photo gallery from the contest!

Kareem put some shots from the Nationals on his Flikr page.

Congratulaitons to the winners and thanks to all the volunteers without whom this would not have been possible.

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